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[ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 06:55 ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Tipoff

Section:
Columns

Summary:
* Palin continues to redefine the conventional copycat wisdom

The 4th installment of 8 years covering the Bush Administration from inside the White House, Bob Woodward’s latest book “The War Within: ---” is thin gruel.

* So why all the concern about summer time melting around the sea ice cap in the Arctic Ocean?

Main:
: According to the latest polls, the presidential candidates are running dead even among those most likely to vote in November. The reason seem to be the Palin effect on what the media continues to mischaracterize as working class Wal-Mart mom like, well, a “hit them where it hurts” westerner like the Alaska Governor. So, Palin is not a solid middle class college graduate who lives in the suburbs? Think again ----- Please!

Meanwhile, voter registration and turnout in the 3-5 key battleground states appears to be on the front burner for both campaign camps. who are counting their new cash accounts and pressuring their contributors

:: What has Bob Woodard, the assistant editor of the Washington Post, told us that we do not already know in his Simon and Schuster/CBS/Redfield book? We have long known that there was a internal National Security debate as to the deployment of US power across the globe, and that the U.S. has advance technology that supports the intelligence gathering institutions, operatives, and analysts.

::: We are informed by Dot Earth, nytimes blogger, Andrew Revkin that as of this fall “theoretically, the Northwest Passage in now open to shipping.” To the best of our knowledge, no commercial shipper has taken the risk to vessel, cargo, or crew at risk to test the “Revkin Theory” in fact. Having recently visited the submarine base, Submarine Force Museum and the docked Nautilus in New London Connecticut, one thought comes easily to mind: What nuclear submarines have done, what reporters and some scientist theorize can be done, if far from what prudent engineers, investors, and businessmen are willing to chance on the high seas.

While the summer ice melt numbers make good quotes, the amount of Arctic sea ice that remains is many fold larger and formidable to sobering to open minds. Remember, as we learned in the fifth grade, for every numerator, there is a denominator. And beware of the numerator quoter who attempts to make it a free standing argument. Resently, data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) indicates that Arctic summer sea ice melt season is over and that 6 million square kilometers was the summer average inventory. 12 million square kilometers was the number at the state of summer That is 16% over the average in 2007. Is there a trend here? Stay tuned if you have the time. The current trend has been underway since the end of the last Ice Age.

BTW the average thickness of a single modern era winter Arctic sea water freeze is about 3 feet, according to the experts.

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[ Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Olympic Swimming Prep

Section:
Parks & Recreation

Summary:
The Rochester, NY Parks and Recreation Dept has a citywide summer swimming progress that includes lessons for kids at the Genesee Valley Aquatic Center.

Main:
Emma and Tessa Little are getting an early start on the Olympic Games of 2028.

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[ Tuesday, July 08, 2008 09:05 ]

Legacy Journal: 50th Malin High School Reunion

Section:
Events & Meetings

Summary:
I will miss my 50th high school reunion this month. Some of the hearty remaining Malin Mustang Class of 1958 will be gathering for the event in the California border ag, railroading, lumber and Kingsley AF Base region of Klamath Country, Oregon.

Main:

Some of us left, others left and returned, others stayed, more than a few have passed on, or simply vanished. What endures is the power of place and the experience of coming of age in a “Heartland” community of significance and substance. Malin is a continuing presence inscribed in memory and recorded in fact. For me, the frozen memories have become even sweeter and more meaningful with the mellow passage of the years.

My first message to my classmates was a short and long forgotten high school graduation ceremony farewell address in the Mustang’s small gym in 1958. The second was a note send from Viet Nam in 1968 for the 10th anniversary gathering. The Fisk family with four kids made the Malin Community Park gathering in 1978. Now, in 2008, it is time for an update.

After four years in Eugene, four years in Portland, a year in Los Angeles two years in the U.S.Army, four years at UCSF, thirty years in Santa Rosa, CA, and four years in Davis, CA, I am retired and now live in Brighton, NY near Rochester in the western Lake Ontario region of the Empire State and near the best of attractions ---- two young bright, beautiful, active, healthy and loving granddaughters.

The Eire Canal, Eastman Kodak, Xerox, the University of Rochester, and the Eastman School of Music are still past of the fabric of Monroe County. Biking the canal towpath, touring the old Eastman Home and Gallery, attending concerts and recitals, participating in Rochester Institute of Technology- Athenium-Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes and daily workouts with a lap swimming emphasis are currently part of the routine.

Internet, Information and Instructional Technology are at the core of my weekly volunteer contributions at several local senior activity services including a health and exercise emphasis . And, what is not to like about Digital Photography, image editing, and Web Publishing. It is a great way to keep up with friends and family. The latter group includes sisters Mary Jayne in Talent, and Kathy in Eugene; kids include Erika Lindsey at the URSM medical center, Tanya Ashley of Cottage Grove, Tiffany Danielle of Hawaii, and Damon Marshall of San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Malin memories, friends, mentors, and rites of passage continue to sustain, refresh, and inspire me daily.

Fondly.

Doug Fisk

BTW, my tough and trusty Orange and Black Mustang jacket bite the dust just two years ago.

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[ Tuesday, July 01, 2008 08:51 ]

Legacy Journal: 2008 mid-point

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
At the mid-point of 2008 where have we been and where are we going? &#8734 is not the answer.

* At the 4th of July break, it is time for BB, BBQ, and Root Beer.

The Olympic Trials are underway and the summer rec programs, including swimming lessons for the kids are underway.

Main:
Meanwhile, there is really little new News.

The politicians are traveling abroad; western wild rivers are benefiting from record snow packs in the the Sierra, the Cascades, and the Rockies. The babies, the mail, and FedEx packages are still being delivered, strawberries are in the fields and markets, people are mowing their lawns and going about their business, and the U.S. continues to be the destination of choice for the world’s young, mobile, and talented elites. Life is good.

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[ Tuesday, June 17, 2008 07:38 ]

Legacy Journal: Tiger Woods: Mental Toughness, Physical Fitness, and Winner with Warriors.

Section:
Sports

Summary:
It is unfashionable to mention appearance in the same context as leadership, but Tiger Woods has the look of a winner when practicing and while on the golf course. The look is in the eyes, the stance, the movement and yes, the dress.

Main:
Woodrow Wilson is said to have valued the place of athletics in the preparation of young men for careers of leadership in academics, business and national service. It has also been suggested that future national leaders will come from the ranks of professional athletics. More than hero worship is involved.

Those who play the game are a different breed than those journalist who comment and report. There are the actors and the critics; competitors and announcers;
pundits and players. One thing separates them ---the sidelines. The few are inside them, the rest are outside them.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Open Golf Tournament is history, the European Soccer Championship is underway, the NBL season is finally ending, and the Olympic Games will soon be starting. Fasten your safety belts, and get ready for the ride.

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[ Tuesday, June 10, 2008 07:13 ]

Legacy Journal: Controlling Carbon: You Go First

Section:
Climate Change

Summary:
Many of the media and academic hyped prescription for curing perceived climate change problems and promoting alternative sources of energy production remind some of us of the kids summer games that
are playground and summer camp semi tests of bravado predictably backup up by “ You go first.” from the sidelines.

Main:
It is one thing to be in the game; quite another to be on the sidelines, in the stands, the booth, or on the beach with the latest throwaway book.

Consider the following:

* A certain California governor is said to be considering a 35 K makeover of his Hummer so it can run on canola oil.

* He also has had a fashination with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that have been prototyped by a Sacramento based research consortium and maintained by a dedicated gang of graduate engineers at their lab at UCDavis.

* One person drove his converted Mercedes diesel from Vermont to California on a fuel diet of diner grease. Now there is a recipe you can really run on. The stunt and a book have drawn attention, but so has the bizarre behavior of the horse Big Brown and people on reality TV.

* Some have proposed state wide color coded surtaxes on electrons flowing through the power grid that are generated by. say, coal fired steam plans.

* Others have suggested a jet water vapor trail surcharge on all national and international plane passangers, mail, and freight. A super supra charge would be made on flights from “dirty polluting China.”

* Countries like New Zealand and Sudan with more methane emitting sheep than people must also be called to account by the UN Security Council.

* Meanwhile, Al Gore, the current “Carbon Coach”, and Apple Board Member was sighted at the recently opened WWDC in San Francisco. To the best of our knowledge, the Major, Gavin “Green “ Newsome, has not yet declared the Moscone Convention Center a carbon fuel and plastic water bottle free zone.

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[ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 07:20 ]

Legacy Journal: Water: the Wilds of Wyoming and Beijing, China---A western perspective.

Section:
Sports

Summary:
What do the sparse wastelands of Wyoming and the Olympic architecture of urban Bejing, China have in common?

Main:
Well, to some folks based in and writing for publication from New York City, both places are foreign, exotic, strange, and not easy to understand, a visit not withstanding.

* Take the current report about a spring of wet weather in Wyoming. The nytimes finds that newsworthy and a bit unusual. So, now it is now possible for trees to grow, meadow larks to sing, prong horn antelope and cattle to graze. Meanwhile, there may even be a hay crop from down by the creek. No wonder Jackie Kennedy wanted her son to get out of town for the summer and get some seasoning and common sense experience on a friend’s working Wyoming cattle ranch.

* And then there is the story of the National Aquatics Center, “The Water Cube” in Bejing the site of the 42 swimming events over two week during the 2008 Olympic Games. The place cost over $100 million in contributed funds from non mainland Chinese sources, was designed by an Australian firm, seats 17,000 and has a light weight, semi-translucent, petroleum based ,Teflon like ceiling. So, what is not to like about that?. A writer for the current New Yorker magazine finds much to comment on including the Chinese way of doing urban planning and residential relocation.

Apparently, some writers need to take a lesson from Frederick West Lander and get out of town and into the field of battle more often.

BTW: Frederick West Lander was an eastern engineer who went went west with the Army and later surveyed for the railroads as they snaked their way across the county’s arrid and hostile trans Mississippi frontier in a series of fits and starts.

Ball’s Bluff ( The Battle of Ball’s Bluff during the Civil War on the Potomic River near Washington.)
(by Frederick West Lander)

Aye, deem us proud, for we are more
Than proud of all our mighty dead;
Proud of the bleak and rock-bound shore,
A crowned oppressor cannot tread.

Proud of each rock, and wood, and glen;
Of every river, lake and plain;
Proud of the calm and earnest men
Who claim the right and the will to reign.

Proud of the men who gave us birth,
Who battled with the stormy wave
To sweep the red man from the earth,
And build their homes upon their grave.

Proud of the holy summer morn
They traced in blood upon its sod;
The rights of freemen yet unborn;
Proud of their language and their God.

Proud that beneath our proudest dome
And round the cottage-cradled hearth
There is a welcome and a home
For every stricken race on earth.

Proud that yon slowly sinking sun
Saw drowning lips grow white in prayer,
O’er such brief acts of duty done,
As honor gathers from despair.

Pride, it is our watchword; “clear the boats”
“Holmes, Putnam, Bartlett, Peirson-Here”
And while this crazy wherry floats
“Let’s save our wounded”, cries Revere.

Old State—some souls are rudely sped --
This record for thy Twentieth Corps --
Imprisoned, wounded, dying, dead,
It only asks, “Has Sparta more?”

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